I am reading To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee and I am on page 42. This book is about a 6 year old girl who lives in the South in a sleepy little town and starts school with a teacher who doesn’t like her and bullies. In this paper I will be predicting and evaluating. I predict that the kids will not meet Boo because Boo never leaves his house and everyone is scared of him. Boo and his family are never outside. Boo was never seen by Jem or Scout for as long as they could remember. The entire family never went to church and kept their shutters done on Sundays. Boo’s family mainly keeps to themselves. The mother never crossed the street and the father only went outside to get groceries every day from 11:30 to 12:00. Everyone in Maycomb is scared of Boo. He ran with a bad crowd when he was younger, the Cunningham boys. They were the closest thing to a gang in town. The boys experimented in gambling and whiskey. Boo even stabbed his dad with scissors. All unexplained things that happen in Maycomb are blamed on Boo. When a quick freeze kills someones flowers it is said that …show more content…
I think that they are uncivilized because they are exempt from certain laws. The kids only go to school for the first day and the law turns a blind eye to the entire family’s activities. The truant officer has just given up and settled for putting their names on the class roster. Burris definitely show he is uncivilized by having no respect for the teacher. He talks back and cusses at the teacher. He made the teacher cry on the first day of school. The Ewells are also poor, as evidenced by Burris’s lack of hygiene. He has lice and doesn’t even seem to notice. They have a house by the city dump and they don’t bathe. Burris’s father throws all of his relief checks away on whiskey. He doesn’t work and has to hunt and trap out of season to have enough food to feed his children. Now the reader knows how I characterize the